“Your sister drops checkers into the game, trying to get four in a row, but she can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that, Leon?”
Today, April 10, 2017, is the birthdate of the replicant known as Leon Kowalski. Bioengineered humans created by Tyrell Corporation for cheap labor have implanted memories and a built-in four year lifespan to prevent them from developing empathetic abilities (Blade Runner, 1982)
#dooku's 3 episodes in the #talesofthejedi spin-off are among my favorites. I adore dooku's philosophy pre-corruption and find it all the more heartbreaking seeing his political ideas get twisted by #DarthSidious when he started out so based - "no, we serve the people of this Republic"
I've set out to expand my movies beyond #starwars#startrek and popularish #scifi like #bladerunner and #tron so rn I'm watching 1983's "The Hunger" with David Bowie and Susan Sarandon and I'm loving seeing a seminal piece of #goth media
Wonderful to revisit Blade Runner on the big screen again this evening, where it really belongs. Took chum along who had never seen it before. Those forty year old visuals are still stunning, the soundtrack by Vangelis iconic.
Today in Labor History February 11, 1938: BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot." He derived the word “robot” from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs. R.U.R. is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was already on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play.